FreePlane version 1.5.9 and earlier contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in XML Parser in mindmap loader that can result in stealing data from victim's machine. This attack appears to require the victim to open a specially crafted mind map file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.6+.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - FreePlane version 1.5.9 and earlier contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in XML Parser in     mindmap loader that can result in stealing data from victim's machine. This attack appears to require the     victim to open a specially crafted mind map file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.6+.
    (CVE-2018-1000069)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Wojciech Regula discovered an XML External Entity vulnerability in the XML Parser of the mindmap loader in freeplane, a Java program for working with mind maps, resulting in potential information disclosure if a malicious mind map file is opened.

Wojciech Regu&#x142;a discovered that Freeplane, a program for working with mind maps, was affected by a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in its mindmap loader that could compromise a user's machine by opening a specially crafted mind map file.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.3-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your freeplane packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
255910	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-1000069	Nessus	Misc.	medium
109093	Debian DSA-4175-1 : freeplane - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
108606	Debian DLA-1316-1 : freeplane security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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